Friday, 30 October 2015

Hi
there, I have a Christmas tag to share this week as I’ve been trying to use up
some of the odd bits of Gelli print floating around in my scraps box. I found a
rather Christmassy green one and this inspired my tag.

Recipe:

The
Gelli print I used was made by applying blobs of the green paint on the plate
and using my fingers to spread it out. I then misted it with water and pressed
the card on to pick up the paint. I then added gold to the plate in patches and
pressed the card on again to make the finished print.

I
cut a piece of the card to tag size using one of my Ranger ones as a guide and
then used the star shower stencil with the embossing dabber – this is brilliant
for stencils if you want to heat emboss as the dabber works so well with them.
You can see the clean effect I got when I embossed the stars with the gold
powder.

I
stamped my chosen crazy bird and the Santa hat on stamping paper with the black
ink and painted the images with the Brusho Crystals. I mixed the brown and grey
shades to make the colour I wanted for my little robin and gave him a scarlet
chest. I used the pencils for his beak and to add some shading to the images. I
then die cut them with the thinlits dies.

I
die cut some small stars from a scrap of paper I swiped through the left over
Brusho paint and dipped them partly in the gold embossing powder then heated it
to melt. I stamped the text on a further scrap of paper, cut the words out
individually and gave them a red border with the coloured pencil.

I
glued everything on the tag and tied some ribbon through the top to finish.

Thursday, 29 October 2015

Hello
everyone, I have something a little different to share this week so I hope you
like it.

This is
what I did

1.I tore up a cat food box and
used the flat side as my base approx size 10x6in. I then laid a 1/8in thick
layer of craft Paste over the whole surface. I left it over night to dry.

2.I rubbed the surface to make
it smooth and then sprayed it with green and blue mists.

3.I then used some Umber Brusho
along one edge and spritzed it, allowing the drips to run down.

4.I added some more Brusho to the
plaque, and then flicked it on with a paint brush randomly. I added some spray
paint in white here and there too.

5.One this was all dry, using an
old pen which I had removed the ink from, I dabbed tiny white dots randomly
over the picture. In particular I followed some of runs. I had decided which
way up I wanted the picture and the runs acted as stems for the trees.

6.I used a White Gel Pen to
highlight areas such as the tree. Next I added some shaded areas with a black
water soluble pencil.

7.While the plaque was drying I
heated up my pan and added Bees Wax and waited for it to melt.

I gave
the plaque three coats of wax heating it with my heat tool each time to finish
the the layer. Once the wax was dry using a pokey tool I scraped a pattern on the
tree. I added some other marks randomly to give some texture and definition.

Here
are some close ups.

Below you can see the wax starting to
dry

Lastly
I added silver wax to the edges which tied the whole thing together.

Wednesday, 28 October 2015

Hi everyone! Today I'm sharing a simple little name
plaque that I made for a new baby. We've all got plenty of patterned papers in
our stash, I used some 7 Gypsy ones that I've had for ages. That's Crafty! have
some pretty Bo Bunny Paper Pads that would be perfect if you need some though.

Instructions...

1. Stamp the Dina Wakley Scribbly Bird, Birgit's
large Bloom, & two of her Leafs onto co-ordinating patterned papers, using
the black pigment ink. Emboss the images with the detail clear powder, then cut
them out.

2. Die cut the name from patterned paper, then use
the Glue 'N Seal to glue the images and name onto the canvas board.

3. Use a black pen to doodle around the edges of
the canvas, and also to outline the die-cut letters.

4. Punch two holes in the top of the canvas board,
insert eyelets and string, then add a button to the flower to finish.

Tuesday, 27 October 2015

I am far from the most organised when it comes to preparing
for Christmas, but the recently released Christmas themed Dinky stencils have
at least started me on my way. As you can see I have decided to make some
Christmas tags with 2 very different techniques.

Here’s what I did:-

The
first pair of tags have been made on acetate. I started by first die cutting my
tags from anA4 sheets of acetate.

I then
stencilled through the Bubble Tree stencil using Cosmic Shimmer texture paste
in both Deep Red and Gold Pearl. To ensure the stencil didn’t move on the
acetate I held it in place with low tack masking tape, this also stopped any of
the paste getting onto the acetate where I didn’t want it. I left these then
overnight to totally dry. Once they were dry I added Tim Holtz Christmas Time
Remnant Rubs, you get a sheet of black and a sheet of white in the pack. I then
tied coordinating ribbon through the tag.

These
were not the easiest to photograph but hopefully you get the idea. There is
also a fabulous shimmer to the trees from the paste which sadly the
photograph doesn’t really show.

2nd
pair of tags have been made using the Dinky Trees background stencil on the 3”
x 5” Gelli Plate. Using PaperArtsy Fresco Finish paints and after playing with
several prints I decided I liked the softness of the ghost prints.A ghost print being layering a layer of
acrylic paint over the remnants of design left by the previous print and then
pulling them both off together.I chose
quite funky non traditional colours for these tags. I cleaned my brayer each
time onto a piece of white cardstock, this piece of card was then die cut with
the tag die to be my background.I then
die cut the trees out of pink card stock and die cut my sentiments in a linen
white cardstock, added few self-adhesive pink stars, again finished off with
coordinating ribbon.